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25.01.2022 AIF officers Major G.C. Somerville, Colonel C.H. Foott and Padre W.E. Dexter at the entrance to a dugout at Anzac. Gallipolii - November, 1915.

25.01.2022 Entertaining the troops! South Vietnam - circa 1965/1966.

25.01.2022 A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) crew refuelling from a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) MRTT during training in the Northern Territory. Combined training was conducted by air-to-air refuelling tanker crews from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at RAAF Base Darwin over 25 to 30 October 2020. Both nations operate variants of the Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), whi...ch in RAAF service is called the KC-30A, and can carry a fuel load in excess of 100 tonnes that can be transferred in-flight to compatible receiver aircraft. The combined training at RAAF Base Darwin was an opportunity to compare experiences operating the MRTT and build working-level relationships, forging closer ties between RSAF’s No. 112 Squadron and the RAAF’s No. 33 Squadron. The RAAF was the world’s first MRTT operator, introducing the aircraft to service in 2011. The RSAF received its first MRTT in 2018, but has extensive experience with conducting air-to-air refuelling with the previous KC-135 Stratotanker, which had previously been used in support of RAAF exercises and training activity. See more

24.01.2022 We Remember Today - Major G T Woolley of the Australian Army Medical Corps. Photo circa 1908.

24.01.2022 The Desert Harassers, No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, recently moved to a new landing field. Here the airmen are pitching a tent in a wheat field while the Italian farmer goes on with the business of cultivating the field. Italy - 1944

24.01.2022 We Remember Today - the five soldiers from the 5th/7th Battalion (Mechanised), The Royal Australian Regiment, who lost their lives in Malaysia on 23 September 1993. They were: SGT Ian Rutherford (Mal) CPL Darren Murphy... CPL Paul Wiffen CPL Christopher Burnett LCPL Darren ORourke See more

24.01.2022 Four SE5 Biplane aircraft and men of C Flight of No 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) lined up on a field used as a makeshift airfield by the RFC. Identified, from left: Lieutenant (Lt) Frederick Walter Sexton, (who enlisted with the 28th Battalion on 23 August 1915 and served as Corporal 2335 before transferring to the AFC); Lt Lawrence Benjamin, (who originally enlisted with the No 2 Squadron AFC on 17 February 1915 and served as a sergeant); Air Mechanic Second Cl...ass Patrick Gaffney, (who enlisted as Private 9875 with the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance Brigade on 28 August 1915); Captain (Capt) Henry Garnet Forrest, Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour, (later awarded DFC and bar) (who originally enlisted on 19 February 1915 with the 23rd Battalion and served as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant 123); Corporal (Cpl) William Bennett Campbell, MM, (who enlisted as Private 8054 with the 2nd Australian General Hospital (AGH) on 3 July 1915); Lt Alpin Charles Grant Cameron, (who enlisted as Gunner 31936 with 3rd Field Artillery Brigade); 1st Air Mechanic E Hayman; Sergeant Allen Raybould, (who enlisted as 9537 Private with the 1st AGH Army Medical Corps on 3 September 1915); Cpl Leslie Dunnet, (who enlisted as 1168 Private with the 10th Light Horse Regiment on 16 March 1915); Capt Roby Lewis Manuel, (later awarded DFC and Bar), (who originally enlisted as 1681 Private with the 43rd Battalion on 5 April 1916). 25th Match, 1918

24.01.2022 We Remember Today - 301 Sergeant Albert Griffith, 2nd Veterinary Section, Army Veterinary Corps of North Carlton, Vic. A presser prior to his enlistment on 8 December 1914 he embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Borda on 22 December 1914 and returned to Australia on 24 September 1916.

23.01.2022 Corporal Daniel Keighran VC. The award of the Victoria Cross was made following Cpl Keighran's heroic actions when his patrol came under sustained heavy attacks on 24 August 2010. The citation for the medal reads, in part: "he was a member of a partnered fighting patrol with soldiers of the Afghan National Army's 1st Kandak, 4th Brigade, 205th (Hero) Corps which was engaged by a numerically superior and coordinated enemy attack from multiple firing points in three separate l...ocations." Cpl Keighran deliberately and repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire. From high points, he identified targets for machine-gunners and light armoured vehicles. He also drew attention away from a mortally wounded comrade (Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney) to enable the clearing of a landing zone for his evacuation. The citation concludes: "Corporal Keighran's acts of the most conspicuous gallantry to repeatedly expose himself to accurate and intense enemy fire, thereby placing himself in grave danger, ultimately enable the identification and suppression of enemy firing positions by both Australian and Afghan fire support elements. These deliberate acts of exceptional courage in circumstances of great peril were instrumental in permitting the withdrawal of the combined Australian and Afghan patrol with no further causalities. His valour is in keeping with the finest traditions of the Australian Army and the Australian Defence Force." See more

23.01.2022 Hat badge - Warrant Officer of the Air Force (RAAF).

23.01.2022 Taking down a message in the thick scrub of Phuoc Tuy Province is Private Peter O'Halloran, a signaller with C Company, 2RAR/NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and a component from 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment). South Vietnam - May, 1971.

23.01.2022 Battledress flash - Royal Australian Army Service Corps - circa 1960s. The Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC) was a corps within the Australian Army. Formed on 1 July 1903, in the aftermath of the Federation of Australia, it was initially known as the Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) and subsumed the functions that had been undertaken by various organisations within the colonial forces. ... In 1948, the Royal prefix was bestowed upon the corps. The corps served in World War I, World War II, as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, Korean War, Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. The RAASC was disbanded on 31 May 1973. After the disbanding of the corps, responsibilities for transport, air dispatch and postal functions were assigned to the newly formed Royal Australian Corps of Transport (RACT) and responsibilities for foodstuffs and petroleum, oil and lubricants (POL) were assigned to the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (RAAOC).

23.01.2022 We Remember Today - 5459 Corporal Harry Thorpe MM of the 7th Battalion AIF. Thorpe was born at the Lake Tyers Mission Station, near Lakes Entrance, Victoria. He enlisted at Sale on 12 February 1916, and embarked on 4 April 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides from Melbourne. He joined the 7th Battalion in France in July 1916. He was wounded in action at Pozieres in 1916 and Bullecourt in 1917. In January 1917 he was promoted to Lance Corporal (LCpl). ... On the night of 4 - 5 October 1917 LCpl Thorpe was conspicuous for his courage and leadership during operations at Broodseinde, near Ypres, in Belgium. For his 'splendid example' he was promoted to Corporal and awarded the Military Medal, although the original recommendation was for the Distinguished Conduct Medal. During the advance on 9 August 1918 at Lihons Wood, south west of Vauvillers, France, a stretcher bearer found Thorpe shot in the stomach. He died shortly after and is buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France, with his friend William Rawlings, another Aboriginal soldier who won the Military Medal, and was also killed on the same day.

23.01.2022 Three survivors of the sinking of HMAS Parramatta, on which all three served. Ordinary Seaman W Woods, H Moss, and T Fryer. In the early hours of the 27th November 1941 while escorting a convoy, Parramatta was hit by a torpedo fired from German submarine U559. The torpedo caused the ship’s magazine to explode and the ship rolled rapidly to starboard and sank within minutes. Acting Commander Jefferson Walker had time to order the crew to abandon ship but only about a third of the ship’s complement was able to escape. In total there were 24 survivors, but 138 men, including all officers, lost their lives.

23.01.2022 A party of the 13th Battalion with material for constructing wire entanglements, resting at Clapham Junction, on their journey to the line, during the Battle of Menin Road, in the Ypres salient. 20th September, 1917

23.01.2022 Well done lad! Lieutenant General Sir John Monash congratulating a soldier of the 2nd Australian Division to whom he had just presented a decoration at the ceremony held near Camon. 13th July, 1918.

22.01.2022 Members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF perform a sketch as part of a concert aboard SS Asturias. The Wing is sailing to Malta for garrison duty. The audience found plenty of typical Australian humour in this sketch, which starred Sergeant (Sgt) Jack Lovell of Adelaide, SA as Roy Rene ('Mo'), along with Leading Aircraftman (LAC) J Dunn of Brisbane, Qld (The Girl); and LAC M Dunne of Newcastle, NSW (The Nude). Malta - July, 1952

22.01.2022 Major Bob Joshua of Bexley, NSW, Captain (Capt) Lynton Summers of Woodridge, Qld, and Capt Paul Davis of Bundaberg, Qld, the first Australians to receive the Vietnamese medal, which has been approved for presentation to all Allied servicemen completing six months service in Vietnam. The medals were presented by Lieutenant General Tam, Chairman of the Free World Military Assistance Working Committee at a special ceremony at Australian Army Headquarters. Saigon - June 1966

22.01.2022 We Remember Today - Corporal F. Doyle of the Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, AIF, shown here wearing his winter clothing. Circa 1917.

21.01.2022 Members of 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) and Rheinmetall Defence Australia, conduct a Boxer turret conversion course at Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera, Queensland.

21.01.2022 Crews Front! Members of the 1st Armoured Regiment - circa 1950s.

20.01.2022 Army members of the Australian and New Zealand Coronation Contingent engaged in rifle drill aboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney, while en route to England for the coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Circa 1953

20.01.2022 Welcome home! Personnel from HMAS Hobart wave to family and friends at her home Port at Fleet Base East, Sydney, after nearly four-months away on a Regional Presence Deployment. The Royal Australian Navy is conducting a regional deployment across Southeast Asia from July to October 2020 with HMA Ships Hobart, Stuart, Arunta and Sirius. The deployment demonstrates Australia's enduring commitment to the security and stability of the Indo-Pacific and to sustaining strong and positive defence relationships with regional nations.

20.01.2022 Sister Natalie Oldham, Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) (right), and Sister Betty Crocker, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), rugged up against the cold weather in their winter nursing uniforms. These winter uniforms were made in either Britian, the United States or Canada as Australia was not making such uniforms at this time. These Sisters were two of the three Australian Sisters in control of the evacuation of British Commonwealth patients wh...o were transported to the British Commonwealth Communications Zone Medical Unit, Korea, collected from there by the Transport Division of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) staffed by the RAAF Nursing Service and transported to Iwakuni, Japan. From there they were transported to the Ambulance Train Hospital which was staffed by nurses rostered from the British Commonwealth Hospital. Sister Crocker handed the wounded over to Sister Natalie Oldham at Kimpo Airport, Seoul, who in turn handed them over to Sister Haynes at Iwakuni, Japan, for the train journey to Kure. See more

20.01.2022 Four unidentified gunners of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade with their 4.5 inch howitzer. France - April, 1917.

20.01.2022 Members of the staff of the Australian Field Bakeries, stacking bread to await packing and dispatch to the Australian troops. 21st September, 1918

19.01.2022 An Australian forward observing post in France during World War 1.

18.01.2022 HMAS Arunta departs Sasebo, Japan, for Australia after a 2 day logistical port visit. HMAS Arunta sailed from the Port of Darwin on October 11 for a six-week deployment. HMAS Arunta, which recently returned to Australia from a three-month overseas deployment, will undertake a number of regional engagements. The Australian Defence Force is committed to strengthening the longstanding security partnerships across Southeast Asia. Our relationships are based on mutual respect, trust and a shared vision for a secure, open, prosperous and resilient Indo-Pacific.

18.01.2022 The unit history of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion during World War One is now available from Regimental Books. Check out Neville Browning's latest unit history book - a great Christmas present for someone with an interest or relative who served in this battalion. Available here: ... https://regimental-books.com.au//anzac-pioneers-history-o/

18.01.2022 On 1 December, 78 years to the day after Ordinary Seaman Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean gave his life to protect his shipmates, the Governor-General will make a posthumous investiture by presenting his family with the insignia of the Victoria Cross of Australia.

17.01.2022 We Remember Today - VFX66028 Captain Sister Margaret Lamont Adams, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), of Melbourne, Vic. Sr Adams enlisted on 13 November 1941, and was killed at sea, aged 29, whilst serving aboard the 2/3rd Australian Military Hospital Ship Centaur. At approximately 4 am on Friday 14 May 1943, during a voyage northwards, the Centaur was off Brisbane at Point Lookout, on Stradbroke Island, when she was struck without warning by a torpedo from a Japanese... submarine. A total of 286 lives were lost, including 11 out of the 12 nurses on board.

17.01.2022 Australian artillery firing at Japanese positions 6000 yards away at Balikpapan. Australian artillerymen of 8th Battery, 2/4th Australian Field Regiment, in action at the landing at Balikpapan pounding Japanese positions 6000 yards away. Balikpapan, Borneo - 1945

17.01.2022 Mateship meant everything. The photograph was taken in January 1944, of four exhausted Australian soldiers of 2/12th Battalion, who helped silence a Japanese mountain gun on Mount Prothero, New Guinea.

17.01.2022 Lieutenant Alfred J Shout hand feeding a pet rabbit at Mena camp near Cairo - March 1915. Lt Shout served in the Boer War with the New Zealand contingent and later served in the AIF with the 1st Battalion at Gallipoli. Later rising to the rank of Captain and winning the Military Cross, Shout died at sea on 11 August 1915 of wounds sustained at Lone Pine on 9 August; he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

16.01.2022 On the 21st of September 1971, five soldiers from D Company 4RAR were killed in action during an assault on a heavily defended bunker system at the Battle of Nui Le. These five soldiers were the last Australians to be killed in action in Vietnam.

16.01.2022 Pvt. William Hamilton, Sydney, Australia, fires an Owen gun burst at portraits of Stalin and North Korean Red leader Kim II Sung adorning a building in Mason, near Hwangju, North Korea, during Allied drive on Pyongyang.

16.01.2022 We Remember Today - 224 Private Leslie Edward Lee, 10th Brigade Machine Gun Company, of Richmond, Victoria. A labourer prior to his enlistment in March 1916, he was killed in action at Messines, France on 8 June 1917, aged 22. Lee played Australian Rules football for the Richmond Football Club and also took part in the first demonstration match for this football code held outside Australia in London in October 1916 in which the team with which he played, the 3rd Division team, beat the members of the Australian Training Units team.

16.01.2022 Army Staff Cadet Oscar Fowler from the Royal Military College Duntroon, Canberra, developed a prototype tracking system for chemical threats as part of a Royal Australian Air Force Jericho accelerator program. The Canary Sensor platform is a recently developed chemical vapour sensing capability prototype. The development of this prototype was supported via Edgy AF, a Jericho Air Force accelerator program that helps people to design and prototype next gen capability. Edgy AF helps accelerate the best ideas to where they are needed most and supports through providing opportunities for collaboration and rapid prototyping.

16.01.2022 We Remember Today - 4195 Private Thomas James Bede Kenny VC, 2nd Battalion. Kenny won his Victoria Cross for his action during an attack on the village of Hermies, France, 9 April 1917.

15.01.2022 The Australian Army Director General of Medical Services (DGMS), Major General (Maj Gen) Frank Kingsley Norris CBE, DSO ED, is on an inspection tour of a camp in Korea. Outside a tent in the camp, Maj Gen Norris (right) meets an unidentified soldier who is assisting with the serving of a meal. Korea - 1952.

15.01.2022 We Remember Today - Matron Ethel Gray, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) seen here in the garden of the Villa Roquebrune. The mansion in the south of France had been loaned by Captain and Mrs Wane as a rest home for about 20 nurses at any one time while on leave. The nurses served in many different hospitals including the 2nd Australian General Hospital (2AGH) Wimereux where Matron Gray was then stationed. Photo circa March 1918.

15.01.2022 Captain C E W Bean, the Australian Official Correspondent, watching the Australian advance through a telescope. Near Martinpuich, France - 26th February, 1917.

15.01.2022 We Remember Today - 19864 Private (Pte) Vincent Francis Boreham, August Reinforcements, Field Company Engineers, of Sydney, NSW. Pte Boreham enlisted on 13 June 1917 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor on 21 November 1917.

15.01.2022 Surrender of the Japanese at Headquarters, 20th Australian Infantry Brigade, to Brigadier W. J. V. Windeyer DSO ED, the Brigade Commander. 1st Lieutenant Kobayshi, one of the Japanese surrender party, places his sword on the table. Brigadier Windeyer is standing behind the table. Kuala Belait, North West Borneo - 20th September, 1945.

15.01.2022 Private E. Millwood, of Kalgoorlie WA, and Private S. Gibbs of Glen Iris, Vic, both of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), operate a British 17 pounder Q.F. Anti-Tank gun. These two soldiers knocked out two German tanks at Tobruk on Good Friday, 14 April 1941, using a 2 pounder gun while members of the 2/3rd Anti-Tank Regiment. Pakchon, Korea - November, 1950.

15.01.2022 On the night of 21 June 1981, while participating in international naval exercises, the crew of the RAN Majestic aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne II rescued 99 Vietnamese men, women and children from a leaking, overcrowded boat in the South China Sea. The boat had been at sea for four days, the engine was no longer working and the refugees had very little food or water. On the Melbourne they were given medical attention, clothing, bedding, food and water. The Melbourne contin...ued to participate in the exercises while at the same time caring for the refugees and undertaking other humanitarian roles related to injured or ill seamen from other ships. HMAS Melbourne then continued on to Singapore arriving on Friday 26 June. United Nations and immigration official boarded the ship and processed the refugees before transferring them to the Hawkins Road refugee camp run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The refugees became known as the Melbourne Group 99 (MG99). Commander John Ingram of the Melbourne took an active role in the rescue and care of the refugees on board the ship and in Singapore where he arranged for supplies of food to be sent to the camp. HMAS Melbourne requested that the Australian government resettle the 77 refugees who had asked to be sent to Australia rather than Europe or the United States of America. This group arrived in Australia in July 1981.

14.01.2022 We Remember Today - Private Darmenia (Abdul) Christian, 'A' Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). ORIGINAL BCFK PUBLIC RELATIONS CAPTION: "Call out "Abdul," around A Company lines of 3 Bn RAR and the only Egyptian in the Australian Army will respond-Pte Darmenia Christian. Ex-Egyptian would be more correct, because Christian, born at Port Said, whose "home address" is Australia Avenue, Matraville, Sydney, is now an Australian himself. He was born at P...ort Said 21 years ago. His father is Maltese and his mother French. He was educated at an English School in Port Said and at Marseilles where he graduated as an engineering mechanic. Whenever he had a holiday he travelled. He has been through France and Italy; he has visited Algiers, Tunis and Morocco. During the war he met many Australian soldiers. They told him about Australia. He wanted to see the place and he wanted more than anything else to be an Australian soldier. So he migrated to New South Wales. He worked for three months as a mechanic at Macc (?) until he found his feet and in April last year he joined the army. In November he came to Korea and now he is serving with A Coy. "It's a great life I have lots of fun and I have made the best friends I have ever had in my life," he said. "The other digs tease me a lot but I can take it. They call me "Abdul" and other nicknames and they are always asking me how my camel is. All I can say is that the digger is No 1, and so is the life in the Australian Army". And "Abdul" has his own sly joke at the expense of his new friends. He has invented a non-existent camel which he has named "Harvey." So well has he developed the theme of the well known stage play and film of that name that at times he nearly has his mates fooled as he ducks out of an unpleasant job to feed or water "Harvey". See more

14.01.2022 Senior Chaplain Paul Stuart RAN, JP, left, and Chaplain Jon-Paul Barry cook up a storm on the barbeque to support Defence members for R U OK?Day at HMAS Kuttabul, Sydney. 11th September, 2020

14.01.2022 ASLAVs of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps in Iraq (Al Muthanna Task Group). Circa 2005.

14.01.2022 A Catafalque party from the Royal Australian Air Force's 29 Squadron prior to the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain commemoration, held in Hobart, Tasmania. 13th September, 2020

13.01.2022 At a parade and sports day for the 12/24th Light Horse Regiment, the Governor of NSW, Sir Philip Game, presents the Volunteer Decoration (VD) to Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Joseph Mackenzie for 21 years' service. Late in the First World War, Mackenzie had served as Senior Medical Officer (SMO) on board the Australian hospital ship, SS Kanowna. Resting on a table draped in the Australian flag is the Macarthur Onslow Memorial Trophy which the Governor is presenting to the unit ...as a whole. It was awarded annually to the most efficient cavalry regiment in the state. Glen Innes, NSW - 13th February, 1933.

13.01.2022 F-35A Lightning II, A35-002 arrives at RAAF Base Williamtown. Exercise Lightning Ferry was conducted in November 2020, with the arrival of nine F-35A Lightning II aircraft at RAAF Base Williamtown, NSW. The aircraft travelled from Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, United States, to their new home base supported by Air Force KC-30A multi-role tanker transport aircraft. Australia has now received 30 of the planned 72-strong fleet.

13.01.2022 Hat badge of the 6th Aviation Regiment. The 6th Aviation Regiment is one of the Australian Army's three Army Aviation regiments and was raised on 1 March 2008 to provide air mobility for the Australian Army Special Operations Command. The 6th Aviation Regiment, equipped with S70A Black Hawk helicopters, forms part of the 16th Aviation Brigade and is headquartered at Luscombe Army Airfield, Holsworthy Barracks, Sydney which was vacated by 161st Reconnaissance Squadron of the 1st Aviation Regiment in 1995.

13.01.2022 HMAT Omrah (A5), with the 9th Battalion aboard, lying at Pinkenbar on the day of embarkation. 24th September, 1914

13.01.2022 We Remember Today - Lieutenant George Alan Vasey, 4th Field Artillery Brigade (FAB), probably taken at Tura Camp, Egypt. A professional soldier from Kew, Victoria, Lt Vasey embarked with the 11th Battery from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1918. He later transferred to the 22nd FAB with the rank of Captain and was appointed adjutant. He then transferred to the 11th Infantry Battalion as Brigade Major and was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished ...Service Order (DSO). Continuing to serve between the Wars, he attested for the AIF out the outbreak of the Second World War with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Later promoted to Colonel, he served in the Middle East with the 6th Australian Division and was awarded Commander of the British Empire, the Greek Military Cross (1st Class) and a Bar to his DSO. On his return to Australia, he was promoted to Major General and went on to command the 7th Australian Division in New Guinea. Following this he was awarded Companion of the Bath and the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross. Suffering from poly neuritis, he was medically discharged on 30 October 1944. He later recovered sufficiently to be appointed commander of the 6th Division. Whilst flying to take up his appointment, his aircraft crashed into the sea near Cairns. His body was recovered and interred in the Cairns Cemetery. His son, VX141121 Sergeant George Halbert Vasey, also served during the Second World War and his wife, Jessie, went on to found the War Widow's Guild.

12.01.2022 Officers of the 4th Australian Machine Gun Company at gun practice with Vickers machine guns in old trenches near Estaire. They are en route from Neuf Berquin (French Flanders) to Neuve Eglise (Belgian Flanders) in preparation for the Battle of Messines that started on 7 June 1917.

12.01.2022 A patrol of the 13th Australian Light Horse passing through Gressaire Wood, on their way to the forward zone. Identified, right to left: Lieutenant L. V. Reid MC; 178 Sergeant Gordon Drane MM and Bar; 706 Trooper (Tpr) S. J. Dedman; Tpr R. J. Jenkins; 419 Tpr Matthew John Ridgwell; Tpr T. W. Edgerton; Lance Sergeant E. Waters (to Edgertons' right). Also named but unidentified are: Tpr McKenzie; Tpr E. Anderson; 1209 Tpr William Roy Bathman. Gressaire Wood, France - 28th August, 1918

12.01.2022 Australian Army soldiers Private Mathew Linden, Lance Corporal Austin Rhue and Private Jayden Greenhalgh from the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, fire an 81mm Mortar during Exercise Diamond Catalyst 2020, at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland.

11.01.2022 Long hours of tending to the medical needs of this wounded Australian digger await RAAF nursing officer, N61450 Nurse Jane Elizabeth Passmore, of Hobart, Tas, as she checks his condition on board an RAAF Hercules transport aircraft en route to Australia from South Vietnam. Section Officer (Sect Off) Passmore was making her fourth aero medical flight by Hercules from Vietnam to Australia. Since it was announced in July 1965 that the aero medical evacuation of Australian Army casualties from South Vietnam to Australia would be a RAAF responsibility, RAAF nursing officers like Sect Off Passmore have flown many thousands of miles. South Vietnam - March, 1966

10.01.2022 The Governor of Tasmania presents Trooper John Hutton Bisdee with his Victoria Cross. Tpr Bisdee, Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, was awarded the Victoria Cross on 1 September 1900 near Warm Bad, Transvaal. He was a member of an advance scouting party who were fired on by the enemy, killing six of the party of eight. Tpr Bisdee dismounted his horse and placed a wounded officer in the saddle, running alongside until they were out of range of the enemy, where he remounted the hor...se and rode to safety. Tpr Bisdee later served in the First World War, obtaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was created an officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military) and was Mentioned in Despatches. He died on 14 January 1930. Members of the press, left, appear to be taking notes, while other soldiers, probably of the Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen look on. The Tasmanian Government provided free railway passes to members of the 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen's contingent to enable them to attend. Hobart - 11th August, 1902.

10.01.2022 Two Lewis guns of the 9th Battalion traversing the enemy lines, with incessant fire, immediately before No. 5 Platoon, B Company, set out on a daylight patrol, which led to the capture of the village of Cappy. 25th August, 1918

10.01.2022 Small arms ammunition being brought up by horses for the 23rd Australian Machine Gun Company operating with the 3rd Division in the Ypres Sector in the battle of October 1917. The pack train is on the Zonnebeke Road forward of Potijze crossroads in the depression between Frezenberg Ridge and Vampire dugout. Ypres, Belgium - 9th October, 1917.

10.01.2022 An Observation Post in the Ypres Sector, from which the Australian observers had an excellent view of Becelaere, Keiburg and Passchendaele. This position was captured on 4th October 1917. The men in this photograph are unidentified. 5th October, 1917

10.01.2022 We Remember Today - 835 Private William Albert Baker, 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of Kangarilla, SA. Pte Baker enlisted on 13 November 1914 and was killed in action on 28 November 1915 at the Gallipoli Peninsula.

10.01.2022 Two members of the 1st Anzac Cyclists Battalion standing, with their bicycles, in front of their barracks. 827 Private Jack Dair Bambury (left) and 830 Private Herbert (Terry) Davies. Henencourt, France - 12th May, 1917.

09.01.2022 Hat badge - Australian Army Public Relations Service. The Australian Army Public Relations Service provides support to Army and Australian Defence Force operations, exercises and activities, both domestically and overseas. Australian Army Public Relations Service (AAPRS) tasking includes provision of public affairs support to regional community relations activities at unit or brigade-level through to gathering high-quality public relations product (video, stills and text) out...side the wire in areas of operation for release to media in direct support of strategic communication objectives. AAPRS is a small corps and includes photographers, reporters and public relations officers. The Australian Army Public Relations Service corps motto is Defende et Doce, which is Latin for Defend and inform.

09.01.2022 On this day in Australian military - 1st December, 1942 - HMAS Armidale sunk. HMAS Armidale was sunk by Japanese aircraft near Timor. As the Armidale sank Able Seaman Teddy Sheean fired at attacking bombers until he was lost with his ship.....Continue reading

09.01.2022 M3 General Grant tanks of 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles at Puckapunyal February 1956. It was the last camp for the Grants. They were replaced by the Centurion Mark 3.

09.01.2022 Chaplain Dean Quilty presides over the Remembrance Day service at the RAAF Base Amberley Memorial Garden. A Remembrance Day service was held at RAAF Base Amberley on 11 November 2020. Although more than a century has passed since the Armistice that ended the First World War, November 11 remains a day commemorate all Australians who have made sacrifices in war, conflict and peacekeeping missions. The event also involved personnel from allied nations where the day is also a day of significance.

08.01.2022 On the 17th of September 1918, Australian soldiers of the 1st and 4th Divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Sir John Monash launched an attack on the Hindenburg Line.

07.01.2022 Buffalo LVTs of the 15th Northern Rivers Lancers. Circa 1949/50.

07.01.2022 Well done sir! An Officer of the 2nd Division, Second Lieutenant William Ruthven, receiving the Victoria Cross at a presentation ceremony held by Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, near Camon - 13th July, 1918. William Ruthven (1893-1970), soldier and politician, was born on 21 May 1893 at Collingwood, Melbourne, son of Peter Ruthven, carpenter, and his wife Catherine Charlotte, née Bedwell, both Victorian born. He was educated at the Vere Street State School, Collingwood, a...Continue reading

07.01.2022 Colour patch worn by members of the 1st Australian Armoured Car Squadron during the BCOF deployment in the late 1940s.

06.01.2022 Aircraftwoman Baylee Smith, a Chef from No. 23 Squadron, experiences a day in the life of a RAAF firefighter at RAAF Base Amberley, Ipswich. In mid-2020, No. 23 Squadron (City of Brisbane) launched a new professional development initiative called ‘A day in the life of’ to provide the squadron’s geographically dispersed members with the opportunity to experience and observe the squadron’s operations through the lens of members in other teams. Over 70 No. 23 Squadron members have since benefited from their ‘Day in the life of’ experiences.

06.01.2022 Officers of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment AIF - circa 1914.

06.01.2022 A RTF1 ASLAV on the Tarin Kowt to Kandahar road in southern Afghanistan.

06.01.2022 The ambulances and transport of an Australian Field Ambulance, moving out of Heliopolis Camp. Egypt - circa 1915/1916.

06.01.2022 We Remember Today - PM3027 Able Seaman Eric George Gorringe. He enlisted on the 16 September 1940, serving with HMAS Lonsdale, Cerberus and Kanimbla. Able Seaman Gorringe died of acute colitis on 24 November 1942.

06.01.2022 The 6th Battery of the Australian Field Artillery occupying a position in a wheat field near Villers-Bretonneux, from which they fired in the Zero hour barrage at 4.20 am, which preceded the Infantry and Tanks advance. Villers-Bretonneux. France - 8th August, 1918.

05.01.2022 Senior Australian and American officers at the ceremony of presentation of the American Silver Star medal to Captain H. J. Murray MC DCM, of the AIF attached to the Allied Intelligence Bureau. Lieutenant General S. G. Savige CB CBE DSO MC ED, General Officer Commanding the 2nd Australian Corps, is nearest to the camera in the centre rank. Torokina, South Bougainville Island - 25th April, 1945.

05.01.2022 WWII hero Teddy Sheean awarded Victoria Cross, 78 years to the day after 'stuff of legend'.

05.01.2022 The Australian Army Coronation Contingent on parade at the Amiens Town Memorial. Amiens, France - 25th May, 1937.

04.01.2022 The Tracker Team 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment) is led out on patrol by Tracker Dog Milo, from Fire Support Base (FSB) Tess, eight miles west of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base at Nui Dat. FSB Tess is the current operational base for the battalion. Behind Milo on the left are: 218894 Private (Pte) Ronald Joseph (Ron) Johnson, 1...9, from Newcastle, NSW; 2792031 Pte Kevin Ernest Lawrence, 23, from Sydney, NSW; 3797135 Pte George Albert Cottam, 22, from Nagambie, VIC and 5716746 Pte Robert Payne, 22, from South Perth, WA. On the right, from the front, are: 312511 Corporal Peter Macpherson Clark, 19, from Dandenong, VIC; 5716673 Pte Raymond Victor (Ray) Hameister, 24, from Perth, WA and 1735400 Pte John Edward Pigott, 22, from Toowoomba, QLD. See more

04.01.2022 We Remember Today - NX24503 Private (Pte) Allan Douglas Walker of Raymond Terrace, NSW. Enlisting in May 1940, Pte Walker served in Middle East with the 2/13th Battalion and was killed at Tobruk on 9 June 1941, age 23. His older brother NX69960 Gunner William Harper Walker died of illness in New Guinea on 13 November 1942.

04.01.2022 Australian army soldiers from 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers stand at ease during the Lancer Barracks bicentenary parade in Parramatta, New South Wales - 21st November, 2020. The Australian Army celebrated the bicentenary of Lancer Barracks, the longest continuously occupied military barracks on mainland Australia. The barracks, located in Parramatta News South Wales, dates back to 1818 and was home to British Regiments, the NSW Police, and now Headquarters for the 1s...t/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers, who have occupied the barracks since 1891. The historic occasion was marked by a formal parade, including the displaying of the 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers Guidons and historical and current vehicles of the Regiment to showcase the proud heritage and history of the unit and the barracks and its importance as a fully functioning and active Defence establishment for now and the future.

04.01.2022 We Remember Today - 2199 Sapper Robert Walter Bell, 2nd Australian Light Railway Company of Warnambool, Victoria. An electrical fitter prior to his enlistment on 28 February 1916 he embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Wandilla on 6 June 1916.

04.01.2022 Unidentified Australian medium machine gunners stand by ready to give supporting fire to mates of C Company, the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), as they move up to attack a hill in the smoke of an earlier New Zealand artillery barrage. Korea - October, 1951.

03.01.2022 Members of 2 Platoon, B Company, 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion, firing on a native village across the river which was reported to be housing some 200 Japanese soldiers. Brunei - 17th June, 1945

02.01.2022 We Remember Today - NX9629 Lieutenant John Fritz Sachs, MM, Z Special Unit, of Chatswood, NSW. He served in Greece where he was badly wounded, became a Prisoner of War (POW), escaped and joined a Greek resistance group and was involved in sabotage work. He commandeered a boat, sailed to Turkey and rejoined Australian forces. Whilst a sergeant with the 2/1 Field Regiment, Sachs was awarded the Military Medal on 26 March 1942 for his 'courage, fortitude and tenacity in escapi...ng from a POW camp'. Lt Sachs joined the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) in May 1944 and he became one of the first group of operatives to train in the use of submarines to use in sabotage and intelligence gathering missions. In his last fatal operation with Z Special Force, he and his partner, Lt Clifford Perske, were to attack ships of the Japanese convoy which were anchored at the Manselembo by attaching limpet mines. They were carried by USS Bream, a submarine which carried the folboat (two person submarine used for the operation). The folboat did not appear at the rendezvous and, on their return to Fremantle, the captain of the submarine reported an Australian voice on the radio at sunrise who omitted his identification codeword. It is believed this was Sachs and that they had been captured and it was an attempt to catch the USS Bream. Sachs and Perske were discovered later to have been imprisoned for a time at Surabaya in Java and later beheaded by the Japanese.

02.01.2022 We Remember Today the service of 2242 Corporal Charles William Wallis MM, 9th Battalion, of Charters Towers, Qld. A mill hand prior to enlisting in August 1915, Charles Wallis embarked from Brisbane with the 25th Battalion, 4th Reinforcements, on board HMAT Armadale (A26) on 18 September 1915. He was transferred to the 9th Battalion in Egypt in February 1916. In November he was appointed Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) and in July 1917 he was promoted to Corporal (Cpl). Cpl Wallis w...as awarded the Military Medal (MM), in September, and Bar, in November, for "..conspicuous gallantry and marked devotion to duty..." during operations at Hooge, France. Cpl Wallis MM and Bar was killed in action on 21 December 1917 at Messines, France. He was 26 years of age.

02.01.2022 Five members of an Australian trench mortar battery preparing to fire their heavy trench mortar in the Chalk Pit. A trench mortar fires a projectile vertically from a tube at the base of which is a spigot which ignites the projectile's firing charge. In this case the shell was nicknamed a 'flying pig' as its slow descent and large size enabled it on occasion to be viewed in flight. The gun crew have been identified, left to right, as Sergeant Daley; Albert Roy Kyle; Corpora...l Clift; Gunner Lear; Gunner Clive Talbot. Pozieres, France - 2nd August, 1916

01.01.2022 Australian Light Horse (possibly the 2nd Light Horse AIF) riding through Kelvin Grove, Queensland in 1914.

01.01.2022 A trench mortar in action on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The mortars used during the Gallipoli campaign were not nearly so effective as those which the Australians later used in France.

01.01.2022 Soldiers from the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment, board a CH-47 Chinook land at Greenbank Training Area, Queensland during Exercise Brahman Stride.

01.01.2022 Wounded in Action! Photo of Captain Daniel Sidney Aarons, MC, 16th Battalion, of Orange, NSW, being carried on a stretcher on his way to a first aid post possibly after receiving gun shot wounds. Two members of his battalion stand amongst the ruins of a German pillbox looking on. ... Capt Aarons enlisted with 16th Battalion on 25 October 1915 and embarked from Fremantle aboard HMAT Ulysses on 1 April 1916. He was later warded a Bar to his MC 4 April 1919 and became a Knight Bachelor on 13 June 1970 for his work as Treasurer of the Liberal Party of NSW. Capt Aarons returned to Australia on 7 February 1920.